The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern ...

The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that ...

First, the mixed recyclables are shredded and crushed into smaller fragments, enabling more effective separation. The mixed fragments pass over rotating screens that remove cardboard and paper, ...

A team of South Korean researchers has developed the world’s first hydrogen-powered plasma torch that uses temperatures up to ...

A new pilot plant in Ohio, with the support of a trade group, aims to test a system to recycle PVC. A company called Plastic ...

The inconvenience of separating plastics for recycling may soon be a thing of the past. A team of Korean researchers has ...

A team of chemists may have found a way to solve the plastic recycling problem - and it starts with a little help from nickel ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating, and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...

A study out of Scotland has found that the plastic recycling process produces large quantities of microplastics, which then get washed into city water systems or the ocean.

Using the quirky physics of plasma, this torch instantly converts mixed plastic waste into chemical compounds that can be ...

Northwestern chemists unveil a nickel catalyst that makes recycling stubborn plastics easier and more efficient.

That process is called mechanical recycling, in which recycling is sorted to separate the plastic. Then, the plastic is chopped, melted in an extruder, and shaped in an injection molder.